Lab Manager
Medtronic
- Hyderabad, Telangana Andhra Pradesh
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for development & tracking procedures, establishment and maintenance of service contracts and warranties with vendors.
- Be accountable for compliance to Lab and MEIC procedure including presenting required evidence during audit.
- Directs and coordinates the laboratory support staff for R&D Project Lab activities & support.
- Plans and execute preventative maintenance and calibration for lab requirements. Maintains an adequate inventory of materials, and laboratory equipment.
- Ensures effective operation of all laboratory equipment and serves as point of contact for instrument repairs.
- May organize and participate in vendor negotiations, product and software evaluations, tutorials, and facility modifications.
- Interfaces with Employee Health and Safety (EH&S) and acts as a liaison between departments and the scientific staff to complete lab modifications and ensure safety compliance.
- Provides technical input to purchasing and other functional areas.
- May trouble shoot and repair general instrumentation.
- Trains new scientific staff in the general use and function of designated instrumentation and creates and refines user protocols for general use.
- Be the single point of contact for stakeholder holder communication, maintain dashboards.
- Enable operational excellence & continuous improvement initiatives
- May have budget accountability for a department, function.
- Manages subordinate supervisors and/or experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
- Provides tactical and / or operational leadership and coaching.
- Receives assignments in task and objective oriented terms. Risk identification and mitigation
- Decisions impact program schedules, customer satisfaction levels, or allocation of time, material resources, expenditures and funds.
- Innovation and Complexity: Proposes modifications to functional operating policies and day-to-day processes.
- Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
- Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors regarding ongoing operations.
- Uses information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties .
- Prior work experience in a regulated industry (medical device, pharma, aerospace, defense)
- Experience working in a clean room environment or equivalent
- Advanced degree in engineering, preferably Biomedical or Chemical, Electrical, or other sciences related field
- Strong coaching and people leadership skills
- Experience in R&D feasibility studies and product development
- Effective engineering/analytical/problem solving skills in a team environment
- Experience with statistical analysis of data, Gage R&R, ANOVA & significance testing at a minimum, using tools such as Minitab, JMP, MATLAB, etc.
- High degree of initiative and self-motivation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present information to cross functional audiences and management. Communication to governing bodies e.g. FDA, GMED, OMA, DOD, in USA and PMDA in Japan, are a plus.
- Experienced in technical documentation – SOPs, test protocols, engineering reports and publications, IQ/OQ/PQ reports, engineering/lab notebooks, etc
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical information into simplified communication
- Posting Date: Feb 12, 2024
- Travel: No